Welcome to the official GReddy USA blog. -Think of this as our online weekly "GReddy Times," a venue for us to report what's going on or what just happened at GReddy USA this week (new products, new projects, racing news, even online store specials.) On our blog you can see what we are up to in the GReddy Sales floor, R&D garage, on the road or even from our Headquarters in Japan.

Monday, October 27, 2014

The SEMA Show is a trade-only industry event; it is not open to the
general public. However, if you are an employee of a company that is
qualified to attend the show, log onto www.SEMAShow.com/register to access the registration form. Buyers, exhibitors and media can register there.

GReddy Performance Products will have a sales display in booth #25175 in the Central Hall near the Honda booth. We will also have new Rocket Bunny info. To make an appointment contact us at 949 588-8300 M-F 9-6 PST

The Irwindale Speedway (also known as the "House of Drift") is a local track for Ken and the Team. And with a full capacity of 15,000 plus fans (many of which are rooting for Ken, GReddy and Scion) it's always an event to look forward to.

The week started of well with good testing sessions, in preparation for round 7, but just before qualifying, the team discovered a possible reliability issue, but with no time for a fix, Ken had to go out and qualify. And that he did, scoring two solid runs with the car still running well. The 76 and 77point scores qualified him in the 12th spot for the FDIRW tandem battles. As a preventive measure the Team worked all night Friday to have the car at 100% for Saturday's main event.

Up first was a rematch from round 6 FDTX, against Joon Meng's LS S13. Ken ran a solid lead run and had the advantage. Unfortunately Meng's car had a mechanical issue and could not follow up the second run, moving Ken in 16 bracket against his good friend Robbie Nishida in is 2JZ Lexus SC. Ken was running a skillful chase run with good proximity against Nishida's fast SC, when bad luck hit our team, with power steering issue, forcing an end to the season.

All in all, the 2014 Formula Drift season was a solid result in the teams reliability and engine performance. The team also learned a lot in the aspects of suspension set-ups for the high performance Hankook tires. As we speak we are working on making the GReddy Performance x Hankook Tire x Scion Racing FR-S even better for the 2015 Formula Drift Pro Championships!

Congratulations again to our Scion Racing and Hankook
Tires teammates, Papakdakis Racing and Fredric Aasbo on a nail-bitingly
close championship season.

Friday, October 3, 2014

We look forward every year to the season finale at the "House of Drift" Irwindale Speedway. It will be exciting to see Ken Gushi in the 850+hp 2JZ GReddy Performance x Hankook Tire x Scion Racing FR-S in front of our local crowd. Cheer our team on for Qualifying, Friday, Oct. 10th and Tandem battles, Saturday, Oct 11th.